- johncoltrane"If you have to press a key for it to happen, then it's not 'auto'."
- Hmm. It looks like I forgot a pointer to the actual tutorial. I wasn't talking about vimtutor, which only covers very basic topics, but about the much more extensive user manual: :help user-manual.
- Forget cheatsheets, tweets, videos, books, etc. Vim comes with a very well made built-in tutorial that will gently pull you toward maximum efficiency.
- You can have the core things you mention in other political systems and you can have democracy without them. Those are characteristics of the particular form(s) of democracy currently in place in most of "the west", not of democracy itself.
> maybe
I know, it's more exciting to play the worst scenarios in one's head, but… _maybe not_?
- Democracy can have many forms, some more authoritarian than others. And it being able to morph into a different form as the conditions change is very much a feature, not a bug.
- Very satisfied owner of a (smaller) PRW-30Y, here (with a matching after market "oyster" bracelet).
Always on time, always charged, always precise, highly readable, packed with useful features… that thing went through a lot without any issue whatsoever. It only leaves my wrist when I feel like cleaning it.
Highly recommended.
- Hotline, Carracho, KDX… oh, the memories.
- (detailed use case) => detailed reasoning
- The ones you can find online are sold by people who know the market all too well so the prices are high. Plus it's online so there's no guarantee about anything.
Pawn shops, thrift stores, or their "modern" equivalents (EasyCash, CashConverters, etc. YMMV) would be a good start. I got mine out of a pile for 10€ at a countryside GiFi (French store) ten years ago.
- I would stay away from vimgolf if I were you because it focuses too heavily on a useless metric, number of keystrokes. The so-called "Vim language" is about expressiveness, intuitiveness, composability, etc., so performing a task in 20 keystrokes is meaningless if it took two minutes to figure out each of them. 40 or 50 keystrokes that flowed without thinking are always better.
Also I must say that my regex-fu improved dramatically after I picked Vim.
- Vim comes with everything you need.
The journey starts by running the following command:
in your shell to learn the absolute basics in about 20 minutes, which is largely enough to be able to perform quick edits on config files. If it didn't stick the first time, then try again. If it didn't stick the second time, then don't bother: Vim is not for you and that's 100% OK.$ vimutorAt the end of vimtutor there is a strong hint that there is a lot more to learn. If you are still interested at this point, then run the following command in a Vim session to access the user manual:
An _active_ reading of chapters 1-12 and 20-32 is pretty much required if you really want Vim to disappear. Skipping this step will make everything worse down the line. It may take something like a month or two if you only do that, and probably a couple more if you do that on the side.:help user-manualNow, a few recommendations…
Yes, you _need_ to read a lot and experiment a lot if you ever hope to become proficient with Vim. Just like with any "pro" app. It takes time and practice to become a pro at anything. That's life. Luckily, no one is expecting you to be a "pro" vimmer, now or ever, so you can do the learning at your leisure and even drop out if you have to. It's just a weird text editor after all and you still have VSCode.
Each chapter of the user manual builds up on the previous ones so you actually get a very gentle and progression curve. The wording is also very approachable so you don't have to be a CS major to understand it.
Don't go in with the project of replacing your current editor. This would be an absolute waste of time as it would give you false expectations AND a strong incentive to cut corners. Just… look at it. Poke at it. See if you like it and, eventually, dive in. Maybe you will end up replacing VSCode with it. Maybe not. Who cares?
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As a programer, I have been using Vim as main text editor since 2010. I love it and I'm pretty good at it, active in the community and all, but I also use other editors and IDEs when doing so makes more sense and I'm not here to evangelize the masses. Vim is old and weird and powerful but a) that power comes at a (rather low, IMO) price and b) it won't solve all your problems so don't invest too much, emotionally, into that learning.
- _Evidence_ of negative effects on society would be useful as well.
- You can catch glimpses of that generic Europe in recent American movies filmed in Budapest, Vienna, Paris, or other capitals. In Netflix "local" productions, also, and local TV shows meant for international distribution, where a lot of effort is made to make the setting as universal as possible.
The real life of real people is still very different across the continent (the gradient from Oslo to Athens is striking), but how that reality is presented is important. And it is currently presented in a very polished, generic way.
- Browsers can handle conversions just fine but they need some context. If that context is somehow tampered with, then the results might be weird.
In this case, SpaceX seems to be using UNIX timestamps(1) which is probably fed to a combination of Date and Intl to obtain a localized date string. Extrapolating the country where the user is located is not really rocket science either. But, if my context is somehow tampered with (VPN, internal clock, browser settings…), then I will get a potentially "wrong" date, for whatever definition of "wrong".
The problem is fundamentally the same on the server side because you can only rely on the information you get… which might be wrong.
So either you take the safest route, which is to display the local time of the organization or its UTC representation and let visitors figure out their local date on their own, or you take a somewhat riskier one, which is to try to display a localized date to your users and accept the potential flaws of the method.
[1] https://sxcontent9668.azureedge.us/cms-assets/future_mission...
- This is done in an effort to comply with what is commonly called "cookie law" (GDPR + ePrivacy directive).
Those texts don't say anything about cookie banners, though, only that users should be informed and have the possibility to make a choice. How that information and ability to make a choice are presented to the user is left to the site owner to decide.
For site owners, cookie banners are an easy way to comply without having to DESIGN that compliance into their site, which can be interesting but time consuming and expensive.
In theory, it should be possible to prompt the user for consent before storing something on their device but that would only work for stuff site owners have control over.
In practice, "cookies" are rarely used voluntarily by the site owners themselves but they are used a lot by the crap they add to their sites for tracking and so on via tag managers. And for that there is no better solution than a blanket cookie banner.
- We actually have the same pressure, but we have built ourselves a world where dealing with it has become somewhat optional. Why bust your ass when you know that you will be given a second/third/fourth/tenth/etc. chance anyway?
No wonder so many things are starting to fall apart around here.
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- Hmm… that's the U.S. Secret Service, not the CIA, and they found lots of interesting stuff except an actual plot to "attack" anything, in NY or elsewhere:
> Officials said they haven’t uncovered a direct plot to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and note there are no known credible threats to New York City.
- Because we are built for Earth. Next question.
- Speaking of WebGL, after a recent Chrome update I am not able to open Figma files anymore because webgl is supposedly not supported or enabled. I have gone through all the recommended tweaks with no effect.
Possibly related: janky playback of YouTube videos at large sizes (theater and full screen).
Both work just fine in Firefox and worked just fine last week in Chrome. I'm at a loss as to why this could be happening all of a sudden.